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Sam m

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Male Male Name
Multiple variants of this name exist: For the Old Danish male name see Sam 1, for the female name see Sam f

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) English short form of Samuel [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) English short form of Samson [2]

Related Names

Sam ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Sammy ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Samy ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Semi ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sam
Genitive: Sams
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sam
Genitive: Samin
Partitive: Samia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sam
Genitive: Sams
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sam
Genitive: Sams

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 August

Sweden Sweden

1 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 964 people were named Sam m (percentage of first or only given name: 85 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
6097 7831 167 259 5930 7572
Denmark Denmark[8]
518
n.a.
 30
n.a.
 488
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 858
n.a.
 20
n.a.
 838
Greenland Greenland[10]
4 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
7 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
566
n.a.
 19
n.a.
 547
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sam (m) Sources: [7][8][12][9]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Sam (m) Sources: [13]


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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